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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 | Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT one of the names the Atkinsons give their special-occasion ales?
(a) The Golden Jubilee.
(b) The Empress of India.
(c) The Grand '51.
(d) The Crimean Victory.

2. What gives the Atkinsons the decisive advantage over the other brewers in the Gildsey area?
(a) They invent the steam engine.
(b) They return rich from an exploration to the Americas.
(c) An ancestor saves Queen Elizabeth, is knighted and given a royal commission.
(d) They grow the best malt barley for beer brewing in the area.

3. Which of the following does NOT draw Mary and Tom closer together?
(a) They both grew up without a mother.
(b) They both have odd older brothers.
(c) They both take the same train to school every day.
(d) They both escape to the ruined windmill together in the afternoons.

4. What is the name of the student Tom Crick butts heads with the most?
(a) George.
(b) Jerome.
(c) Price.
(d) Dick.

5. What is the main fish that the Cricks and their neighbors catch for food?
(a) Salmon.
(b) Eel.
(c) Trout.
(d) Carp.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tom Crick mentions a similarity his father found between his home and the battlefields of World War I. What is that similarity?

2. The headmaster of the school where Tom Crick teaches history thinks Tom should retire from his job. Why?

3. What was Freddie Parr's father, Jack Parr, infamous for in the Gildsey area?

4. What sort of proof does Mary offer that Dick cannot be the father of her child?

5. To what does Tom Crick compare the soil of the Fens?

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